Title

Efficiency of turmeric, triphala and aloe vera in the treatment of oral submucous fibrosis

Authors

Saikiran Bahadur¹, T Santosh^2,*, Omar Basheer Altaher Mohammed³, F Salma⁴, TS Deepak⁵, Bhavana Agrawal⁶, E Deepa⁷ & Sneha Saha⁸

Affiliation

¹Private Practitioner, Departments of Prosthodontics, Springfield Dental, Springfield, Massachussets, United State of America; ²Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Government Dental College, Dibrugarh, Assam, India; ³Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Sebha Dental Faculty, Sebha University, Lybia, Country in North Africa; ⁴Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, NIMS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India; ⁵Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Subbaiah Institute of Dental Sciences, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India; ⁶Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Pacific Dental College and Hospital, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India; ⁷Department of General Pathology, SRM Dental College, Ramapuram, Bharathi Salai, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; ⁸Intern, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Saikiran Bahadur - E - mail: kiranmds@umich.edu
T Santosh - E - mail: santoshtee@gmail.com
Omar Basheer Altaher Mohammed - E - mail: omar1973den@gmail.com
F Salma - E - mail: surumy.fazil@gmail.com
TS Deepak - E - mail: drdeepakshetty11@gmail.com
Bhavana Agrawal - E - mail: drbhavana_1@yahoo.com
E Deepa - E - mail: deepae1@srmist.edu.in
Sneha Saha - E - mail: snehasaha@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received April 1, 2025; Revised April 30, 2025; Accepted April 30, 2025, Published April 30, 2025

Abstract

Oral Submucous Fibrosis (OSMF) is a condition marked by progressive fibrosis of the oral mucosa, which makes difficulty in opening mouth and causes other painful symptoms. Conventional treatment options for Oral Submucous Fibrosis are limited and their effectiveness varies. Hence, herbal formulations have gained attention as alternative and complementary treatment options for Oral Submucous Fibrosis. Therefore, it is of interest to assess the efficiency of herbal medicine in the treatment of Oral Submucous Fibrosis 40 patients diagnosed with Oral Submucous Fibrosis were equally alienated into 4 groups of herbal medicine for the management as; Group I-turmeric, Group II-triphala, Group III- aloe vera and group IV- control placebo group. Each patent were asked to apply particular medicine two times daily for 3 months. The efficacy was checked for reduction in burning sensation and improvement in mouth opening. There was improvement in mouth opening, decrease in burning sensation and pain after the treatment. Triphala was found efficient in improvement of Oral Submucous Fibrosis symptoms followed by turmeric and aloe Vera.

Keywords

Aloe vera, oral submucous fibrosis, triphala, treatment

Citation

Bahadur et al. Bioinformation 21(4): 630-634 (2025)

Edited by

P Babaji

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.